Space lanes, & Star movement

[Daish]

Space lanes.

Can there be something done to bring some more immersion to space lanes, though it states in the left Ui panel "Space lane" that you are now flying in it does not feel real enough as a space simulator goes. It would be nice to have a section of dedicated space to have as a reference point much like the orbital lines we see and can turn on or off, can something be done to create a virtual space lane zone that we can both turn on or off and can see ships travelling there way through the space lanes on there way to their destinations and ports and the remaining space is then deep as we know it, to bring a visual immersion to the game.

Star movement.

The current star movement graphic if you like whilst at full throttle super cruise speed is very boring I feel now can we not have a mix of slow moving distance stars and medium moving and fewer faster stars movement whilst super cruising again this would add to immersion and sense of better space travel esp: for those of us who explore 90% of the time, both the above would be a welcome change to in game flight time.

 

[Para Handy]

Shipping lanes - you really want more clutter in your HUD?

What star movement?

 

[varonica]

The current star movement graphic if you like whilst at full throttle super cruise speed is very boring I feel now can we not have a mix of slow moving distance stars and medium moving and fewer faster stars movement whilst super cruising again this would add to immersion and sense of better space travel esp: for those of us who explore 90% of the time, both the above would be a welcome change to in game flight time.

Even at full speed SC there would be very little visible movement, parallax really only works because of the relative closeness of objects we normally observe, for instance to establish any parallax movement of the nearest star requires an observation difference about the width of the earths orbit, and that's only the nearest star. Any stars even a few light years out will be effectively motionless.

This is pretty much beside the point anyway, the skybox you see is actually a representation of the star position you would see if you were at that point in space, but isn't actually 3D data, it's just a flat image generated from that data, so not possible to have star movements in the sky box. You will see this if you try flying towards a nearby nebula in SC and not warp, it will not appear to change even if you take the time to travel the required distance to reach it in space.